Word: likenesses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Expressions of sentiment in the colleges on the most important public question of the day is a momentous experiment. One of the great weaknesses of our democracy is that our views, as a nation, are not organized. Certain groups, like the Chambers of Commerce, the American Legion, the Non-Partisan League, and the American Federation of Labor, occasionally carry on agitation and bring pressure to bear in order to influence legislation. And government in America has been defined as the result of the pressure of these organized opinions on the Central Legislative Body. But the great mass of American sentiment...
...Jenkins, and leaves the "laws of economics" and the politicians to punish the guilty ones and meet the future. It allows the "laws of economics" to set prices; it discovers that Mr. Hoover can set prices better than the "laws of economics"; it dismisses Mr. Hoover, and like a pettish child disposes of its railroads because, forsooth, it has not learned to run them. And this is the amorphous djinn to which we believers in democracy cheerfully trust our salvation...
Records of 62 institutions show a like increase. From 130,630 students in 1916 the total has swollen to 158,816. Although the colleges were not wholly prepared to receive these great numbers, and even had to tell many that they could not receive them, and although they found that educational conditions were in a chaotic state, they set to work to effect a readjustment on a fundamental and expansive basis. Today they are ready to solve any problem that may be thrust upon them and ready for an era of unparallelled prosperity...
...strictly women's colleges, enrolment this fall is 8870, compared to 8723 last fall, a gain of less than two per cent. Enrolment of women in coeducational institutions has made a gan of 22 per cent. This condition of affairs is not impossible of explanation. Many women's colleges, like Vassar, Bryn Mawr, and Wellesley, have only limited accommodations to offer, and must perforce limit the number of students they annually admit. Their enrolment in consequence remains practically the same from year to year. Smith, with nearly 2000 students, continues to be the largest women's college in the world...
...just another of those extra-curricular activities "deserving of undergraduate support." Its special significance for Harvard at this time lies in the fact that it offers the best and perhaps the only opportunity for College men to meet grown men from a really different social stratum on something like a common basis...